First UK edition. Scarce. An account of the Field Museum of Natural History [Chicago] Abyssinian expedition (1926-1927) to collect museum specimens of mammals and birds. Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of mammals at the museum, led the expedition to what is now Ethiopia. Louis Agassiz Fuertes was in charge of the ornithological part. The author, James Edwin Baum (1887-1955), an Amerian journalist and hunter, accompanied the expedition and shot specimens of big game.